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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






2. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






3. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






4. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






5. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






6. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






7. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






8. Multisensory Structured Language Education






9. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






10. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






11. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






12. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






13. Individual Educational Plan






14. r-controlled syllable






15. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






16. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






17. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






18. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






19. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






20. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






21. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






22. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






23. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






24. Multisensory Structured Language






25. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






26. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






27. English as a second language






28. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






29. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






30. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






31. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






32. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






33. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






34. Feeling through fingertips






35. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






36. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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37. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






38. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






39. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






40. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






41. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






42. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






43. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






44. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






45. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






46. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






47. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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48. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






49. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






50. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.